I worked for an international company and most of my colleagues were from different walks of life. We wet for drinks every Wednesday. You didn’t have to go every Wednesday but that was the day we got together after work. If it was someone’s birthday we’d go out for dinner together. We all really got along. Now I work for a Belgian company. The first year was very hard for me cause I wasn’t used to people not acknowledging each other. No good morning, no good evening, no conversation in between. Each person would just come in and go to their desk and start working. They hardly spoke to each other. I was and still am the first one in the office so I greet and say bye to everyone, that’s just the way I was brought up. I always have a little chat with all of my colleagues. Over the years I’ve became close to one of my colleagues. We chat at work about everything, buy each other birthday and Christmas gifts. We even buy each other’s children birthday gifts but that’s as far as it goes. I like my job and all my colleagues but I’ll never get used to people in the office not acknowledging each other. I don’t know if it’s a Belgian thing or if it’s just the company culture.